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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



OCTOBXB 1, 19M. 



Witli the production of lilies has been 

 under way for the past four years. It 

 (Consists, first, of selecting plants which 

 flho^ freedom from disease as manifested 

 by spotted leaves and distorted flowers. 

 The varieties selected are those well 

 known under the names of multiflorum, 

 Harrisii, and giganteum. When these 

 plants come into bloom the flowers are 

 cross-fertilized, with certain purposes in 

 tiew. The seeds from these plants are 

 sent to California and other places about 

 the end of the summer. They are planted 

 out in the field in the following spring, 

 and in a year from that period the 

 growth made by the seedlings is so great 

 that hundreds of plants have been re- 

 «ently produced bearing in the neighbor- 

 hood of thirty flowers to a stem. As one 

 would naturally suppose, disease is not 

 anything like as prevalent in these Cali- 

 fornia-grown plants as it is in Bermuda 

 and Japan, the present sources of supply 

 of bulbs used in the United States. So 

 far as the work has gone, the results have 

 been very encouraging, especially in 

 sotithern California, so that we are rea- 

 sonably certain that the supply of bulbs 

 will in due course of time be produced 

 within our own borders. 



There is a large tract of country with 

 soil suitable for lily growing in the south- 

 western portion of California, from Santa 

 Barbara down and extending inward for 

 several miles. The bulbs can be har- 

 vested by August 1. Some of those pro- 

 duced during the past season from two 

 ^and three-year-old plants are very large 

 and satisfactory. Among some bulbs re- 

 cently received by the Department of 

 Agriculture was one which measured 

 fourteen and one-half inches in circum- 

 ference; others closely approximated this 

 size. It would seem that the method of 

 reproduction by seed, saving desirable 

 types from the seedlings and propagating 

 those only by division and not from 

 scales, is the true solution of the prob- 

 lem confronting the Easter lily industry 

 in the United States. Should it be found 

 practicable to fix any of the varieties so 

 that they will come absolutely true from 

 seed, then the method of procedure will 

 be facilitated. 



NORVICH, CONN. 



The dahlia show of the New London 

 County Horticultural Society, held Sat- 

 urday afternoon and evening, September 

 19, in Buckingham Memorial, is reported 

 to have been the most successful ever 

 given by the society. The attendance 

 was the largest in the society's history. 

 The exhibition was twice as large as ever 

 before, and there was not room enough 

 to show the flowers to best advantage. 



There were all kinds and colors of 

 dahlias. The two cactus varieties, Au- 

 rora and Gondola, carried off most of 

 the honors. 



The entire west end of the hall waa 

 occupied with the gladiolus show by B. H. 

 Tracy, of Wenham, Mass., who showed 

 325 spikes of different colors. 



There was a large jardiniere of the 

 American gladiolus by John Lewis 

 Childs, of New York, there being 100 

 spikes. 



The exhibit of W. W. Rawson, of Bos- 

 ton, included dahlias and gladioli. 



Much interest was shown in the dis- 

 play of single dahlia seedings by Alex- 

 ander MacLellan, of Newport, who had 

 four large vases, with 150 blossoms, 

 largely of the Twentieth Century type. 



The dahlias were classified and ar- 

 ranged by William W. Ives and the 

 asters by S. Alpheus Gilbert. 



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